Bayou Lafourche SW of Donaldsonville07380401
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.1 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Paincourtville is 75° and mostly clear at 4 PM. The dew point is 53°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east-northeast at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 60° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. Highs stay close to 85° all week. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:29 PM. The Moon is a waxing gibbous, 61% lit, and sets at 1:44 AM after midnight. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The bright Moon hides all but the brightest of them. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 21 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 PM in Paincourtville, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 37, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 PM from its reporting area, Thibodaux (LA), 24 miles off.
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 34, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Wed 1 PM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Mon 3 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Wed 1 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Paincourtville, LouisianaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Paincourtville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Bayou Lafourche SW of Donaldsonville07380401
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.1 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW2074GW2074
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.5 mi away/20 ft/6 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
GonzaleREG
At an airfield/14.4 mi away/26 ft/12 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Donaldsonville 4 SWLA-AP-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.2 mi away/12 ft/2 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
NapoleonvilleNAPL1
At a cooperative observer's station/4.4 mi away/33 ft/19 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 14.4 mi from Paincourtville, Louisiana. From its report of Oct 19, 2026, 4:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
76.5 F with a dew point of 52.0 F, 42 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 5,600 ft up.
From the east (80 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Gonzale, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.